2024
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December 06, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

This fall’s significant, simultaneous wildfires were new to Massachusetts. We usually get our reds and golds in a gentler way. 

The Monitor’s Mackenzie Farkus until recently called the commonwealth’s heavily wooded west, where the Butternut Fire burned, home. So she hopped into her hatchback. 

“I immediately knew where to go and who might make for good interviews,” Mackenzie says. She drove out to the Berkshires, dodging eight deer and a porcupine, to lead a team report and help us find the broader story in a local event.


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Doug Brown, director of stewardship at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, looks out towards East Mountain from Thomas & Palmer Brook in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on Nov. 26, 2024.

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Ryan Rustan get some help as he puts his dog Sugar's paws in cement as she is inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street in Huntington Beach, California, Dec. 5, 2024. Sugar, the first canine awardee, has won a number of World Dog Surfing Championships, and Surf City Surf Dog and Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge titles over the years.
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A look ahead

Thanks for ending your week with us. We’re working on a raft of stories for next week, including another on-the-ground report from Dina Kraft. A tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon has civilian residents of northern Israel, displaced by more than a year of fighting, wondering about the prospect of returning home to rebuild. 

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